Professor
Creative Writing

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Areas of Expertise

Poetry and translation.

Professional Background

Ralph Angel is the author of four books of poetry: "Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems" 1986-2006 (2007 PEN USA Poetry Award); "Twice Removed; Neither World" (James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets); and Anxious Latitudes; as well as a translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, "Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song."

His poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, a Gertrude Stein Award, the Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association.

Mr. Angel is Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Courses Offered at Redlands

Three levels of Poetry Writing Workshops

Senior Portfolio

Various Creative Writing and Johnston seminars including Surrealism, The Beat Generation, Translation, and the Literature of Separation